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Root f-l-s

Imperial Aramaic Arabic

Both languages share identical consonants at this root —f-l-sf-l-s. No Proto-Semitic sound change separates them here.

Imperial Aramaic

arc
root: f-l-s
  • פלסףverb
    to philosophize
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Arabic

ar
root: f-l-s
  • فِلْسfilsnoun
    a small-denomination coin, penny
  • فَلَّسَfallasaverb
    to bankrupt, to make broke, to ruin, to render out of pennies
  • فَلْسfalsnoun
    scale of a fish
  • أَفْلَسَʔaflasaverb
    to fail financially, to become insolvent, to go bankrupt, to become ruined, to run out of the last penny
  • فُلُوسfulūsnoun
    plural of فِلْس (fils)
  • مُفْلِسmuflisadj
    bankrupt
  • إِفْلاسʔiflāsnoun
    verbal noun of أَفْلَسَ (ʔaflasa) (form IV), bankruptcy
  • تَفْلِيسtaflīsnoun
    verbal noun of فَلَّسَ (fallasa) (form II)
Canonical root family: f-l-s